The 'Boater's Guide to Barnegat Bay and Little Egg Harbor' and the 'New Jersey Boater's Pumpout Guide', both color fold-out maps printed on waterproof paper, promote responsible boating and improved water quality with location-based information, as well as associated educational and reference text.

The website, 'njboating.org', intended for NJ trailer boaters, is a Google Maps application for your web browser to view boat ramp locations in New Jersey, to access descriptions of each ramp location, and to download the 67-page boat ramp document from NJDEP Fish & Wildlife.

DESCRIPTION:
The Boater's Guide to Barnegat Bay and Little Egg Harbor is an educational guide and map highlighting the region's natural environment and promoting ways for people, especially boaters, to minimize their impact on this vital ecosystem.

FUNDING/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:The map was produced as a joint venture by the Marine Trades Association of New Jersey, Rutgers University Cooperative Extention of Ocean County and CRSSA with funding from various sources listed in the document.

This is the 4th edition of the map; the previous versions are dated 2004, 2001, and 1999.

* Copies of the guide are FREE, however, unfortunately at this time, hard copies are no longer available. Please refer to the PDFs as a general reference (full resolution PDF if possible on your PC or device), and also go the http://njboating.org for more boating information. (web text updated 2014/06/18)

DESCRIPTION:The New Jersey Boater's Pumpout Guide is an official map of all known New Jersey marinas with vessel pumpout facilities. The map was developed as part of the Clean Vessel Act to provide information to boater's regarding pumpout locations and listings and also to provide other helpful background and contact information.

FUNDING/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
The project was a cooperative effort of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service, the Marine Trades Association of New Jersey, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife, New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, New Jersey Sea Grant, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Watershed Management, Ocean County Planning Board, Monmouth County Board of Health and the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

MAP CHARACTERISTICS::

2-sided 22 x 34 inch folded color map

Printed on waterproof paper

Pumpout information for boaters

This is the 3rd edition of the map; the previous versions are dated 2003-04, 2006, and 2011.

Google Maps Application: The NJ Ramp Guide Google Maps-driven website was composed by the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA) at Rutgers University in support of the NJ Boater's Ramp Guide. Shown in Google Maps are all of the New Jersey boat ramps as listed in the Ramp Guide. Users not only view ramp locations, but by clicking on a ramp point, can also obtain the ramp attributes (descriptions), such as whether or not there is a fee, restrooms available, fuel, lighted, etc, etc. Also at the website are instructions, links, and contact information.

FUNDING/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Guide: Acknowledgements as stated in the New Jersey Boater's Boat Ramp Guide:

The New Jersey Boaters' Ramp Guide project was completed by New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium (NJSGC) staff, Michael J. Danko, Rory Joyce, Georgeann Sobotka, and Jessica Staats. NJSGC is grateful to the I BOAT NJ Program for funding this assessment and guide. The team would like to thank everyone who provided guidance, editorial comments and information to the project, especially Boat US Trailering Magazine, Marine Trades Association of New Jersey, New Jersey State Police and Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers. A special thank you to Rory Joyce from NJSGC and Genevieve Boehm Clifton from New Jersey Department of Transportation Office of Maritime Resources for persevering with the project as it evolved into its final format, and to the New Jersey Sea Grant Extension Program and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish and Wildlife for contributing additional funds towards printing. Finally, we would like to thank all the boat ramp owners for supplying the information necessary to complete this project and for agreeing to be listed in the New Jersey Boater's Ramp Guide. Their willingness to provide access to the water affords us the opportunity to enjoy water-based recreational type activities such as boating, fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing. This publication was supported by the National Sea Grant College Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under NOAA Grant # NA060AR4170086. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of any of those organizations. NJSG-07-655

Google Maps Application: The NJ Ramp Guide Google Maps-driven website was composed by the Grant F. Walton Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis (CRSSA) at Rutgers University in support of the NJ Boater's Ramp Guide, for the NJ Sea Grant Consortium, the NJDEP Fish & Wildlife, and other project partners.